David DAVIES

David DAVIES ROI
1864
1939

Australian-born (Ballarat) and educated in France, the artist studied art in Melbourne and at Julian's Academie, Paris where he stayed for fourteen months in 1893.

According to James MacDonald who wrote a book about Davies, he spent eight months in 1901 working with the artist who was then living at Lelant, 'a leafy little village at the extreme head of St Ives Bay and across the narrow strip of water from the little town of Hayle. At this point the land rises abruptly from the sea, and for as far as St Ives itself (to which it sweeps without a break except for Carbis Bay) is varied and picturesque.' 

While in St Ives, Davies served on the Hanging Committee for Lanham's Gallery, and exhibited with the Cornish artists at the Whitechapel Exhibition in London [Exhibition catalogue repr in Hardie (2009)].

media

Landscape and coastal painter in oils

 

works and access

Works include:  Seascape (Hayle Bar) (1938)

Access to work: Melbourne; Sydney Art Galleries; National Gallery of Victoria

exhibitions

RA (6)

Paris Salon

Carnegie Institute, New York

Whitechapel Cornish Artists 1902

memberships

ROI

misc further info

 

references

Benezit

Crespon-Halotier

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

Mallett's Index

Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History

Whitechapel Exhibition catalogue (rep Hardie 2009)

Whybrow (1994) St Ives

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/

www.artistsfootsteps.com